lady vashj solo (for battle pet)

has anyone done this? i sat there killing water elementals for 5 minutes straight and not a single core, i can't imagine this is working as intended, has something changed am i doing something wrong? just want to kill her stupid immune to damage bosses ugh.

you have to kill the tainted elementals(green ones) to get the cores. They spawn like every 50 seconds or so after the current one is killed. They sit around the edge and fire long range shots(like little green shots) so you can tell if one is up. If you were killing them and they weren't dropping, then I'm guessing the fight bugged or something :\

It is super annoying, but solo able as a hunter. I did it last night. ended up with the boss getting +990% increase to damage, which funny enough did not make any difference.
fun fact I got the pet as well. so that is one from that instance, II got the Alar one and thats all that dropped for me

has anyone done this? i sat there killing water elementals for 5 minutes straight and not a single core, i can't imagine this is working as intended, has something changed am i doing something wrong? just want to kill her stupid immune to damage bosses ugh.

Did this last night. If you have DBM you'll know when they spawn. It'll say Next Elemental (#) X. When it says soon start looking around and you'll see a green poison bolt flying through the air. Dash over to it and kill it for the Tainted Core (these are the only ones that drop it, the other ele's just make it so Vash doesn't gain a damage stack). Then click on one of the four pillars (do note that you can only carry one taint at a time).

The timer is roughly 45 seconds for one to spawn. Main thing is just to kill the Naga/Strider when they spawn, but always prioritize the Tainted.

Originally Posted by RecliningPanda

fun fact I got the pet as well. so that is one from that instance, II got the Alar one and thats all that dropped for me

Lucky. I did them all yesterday and only got the Water Elemental one. Gonna go through and do it on my alts later this week and see if I get lucky. Prior to patch in the instances I was getting all 3 in one week, then following week nothing and repeat (when I actually did do them). Only ones I had no luck in was AQ40 and managed to finally get one of each (except for Mind one from first boss, got a couple of those).

Easy fight to solo just watch for the tainted elementals on dbm kill them deactivate the pylons. Also if you have some sort of aoe ground effect you can put it on Lady Vashj and the elementals that give her stacks should mostly die before they get to her lessening the damage you'll take.

Supereasy for me, Furywarrior. Just focus on destroying the tainted adds. If you happen to have no timers, just watch out for green slime balls being thrown at you. The only mobs throwing them are tainted elementals, thus, if you get hit by them, seek in the direction they come from. If you have deactivated a pillar, focus on decimating the bigger adds (Stalkers and Naga) and then lowering the number of water elementals getting through until the next slime ball is thrown at you. Don´t worry if Vashj´s buff stacks to ~ 70+, I had her grown through the ceiling actually when I killed her...

The most difficult part is getting to the elements fast enough, I managed to miss 4 when I just needed 1.

Also you might as well ignore the normal elements, the boss doesn't really hit that hard even if she has 99k stacks. I think my void (with soul link) was getting hit for 9k tops which would have been allot back then but now....